[Bug 675587] Re: Please remove and blacklist pyxpcom from the archive

[Chris Coulson]

Just to be clear - the Debian package installs a binary component
directly in to /usr/lib/xulrunner/components. On Ubuntu, this is a
volatile directory, as it has a version number in it which changes
between minor versions. This would mean we'd have to do a pyxpcom update
every time we rolled out a Firefox security update.

In general, dropping random binaries in to the application directory is
bad, and is strongly discouraged by Mozilla (this is why we have a
components.list, to prevent these binaries from being loaded at run time
and to discourage vendors from doing exactly this type of thing).

The only correct way to distribute the binary component provided by
pyxpcom is to bundle it as an extension.

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Please remove and blacklist pyxpcom from the archive
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675587
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